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By Steven SolnickA. statement by Physics, Department Chairman Professor Herman

Feshbach that "'the Institute is committed to the construction of [a]new building for physics" may have raised some premature hopesamong members of the Physics Department.

Feshbach's announcement was contained in an October 24 newslet-ter to Physics faculty and staff and reprinted in a newsletter for the en-tire community dated last Friday.

Provost Francis Low said yesterday that the institute was committedonly to trying to raise funds for the new facility.

According to Feshbach's -statement, the MIT Planning Officepresented a proposal to consolidate the facilities of the Physics Depart-rent, currently spread across the campus. The "essential ingredient" ofthis proposal would be a new Physics--Building on the present site ofBuilding, 12. The new building would house "a substantial fraction ofthe department, including the Department Headquarters." Feshbachstated that the strategy for raising funds for the building would be es-tablished by the Resource Development Office "in' th course of thenext few mornths."

Low acknowledged that the wording of Feshbach's statement mayhave been misleading. According to Low, the matter was considered bythe Committee on Resources for the Institute-(CRI), the Institute'schief fundraising policy body.

"The CRI agreed the Physics Building was a high priority and wewill go out and try to fraisefunds for it. We are going to try for it: that iswhat we-are committed to,' said Low. He explained afuindraising drivewould probably take "a few years" before there could be any final deci-sion on the project.

He added, "We cannot commit money we don't have. Also, the siteis certainly not committed. Even if we' get thle money, circumstancesmight change and we-may choose another-site. It (Building ,12] is a like-ly site, though."

| Feshbach commented yesterday that.'"There's no problem" withmisinterpretation of his statement. "If they don't raise the money, theywon't be-able to build anything, wil they?" he said.

When asked what impact a new construction fundraising. drivewould have on efforts to pay off the-debt on 500 Memorial I)rive-now about $9 million - Low replied, "It is hoped that these differentfunds would come from roughly independent sources. Of course thereis a certain conservation law of the time and effort of people raising thefunds."

Low commented that a new building for Physics would also open upspace elsewhere which other departments would be able to use.

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By Jack LinkAs 'Voyager I continues to

observe Saturn from the planet'sfar side, scientists At MIT'sCenter for Space Research (CSR)are beginning to analyze some ofthe data it has already beamedback.

CSR Director Professor Herb'- Bridge- -is N i-ipit`s 1nvzes~t~fit

for the- Plasma 'Science experi-ment (PLS), one of the nine ex-periments aboard Voyager 1. Theexperiment was built at CSR'sSpace Instruments Lab.

"We've discovered that Titanacts like a big smokestack, spew-ing out a wake of low energy par-ticles," said Fran Bagenal, amember of Bridge's team.

The atmosphere of Titan,-Saturn's planet-size satellite, has

T' crisisto-the President for Urban Rela-tions, said that the reason MIThad no plans in case of a closingwas because MIT was waiting tosee "'what the problem wouldevolve into."

| Milne noted that the last tran-sportation emergency the In-

. stitute faced was the Blizzard of1978. During that emergency, allnon-essential vehicles wereprohibited from all roadsstatewide. However, during thatemergency, MIT knew exactlywhat the restrictions on transpor-tation would be. During theMBTA problem there was no in-dication whether all trains andbuses would have been out ofoperation.

MIT officials were in close con-tact with Cambridge officialsyesterday monitoring thisproblem and decided to wait untilthe nature of the problem becameclearer.

wouldn't have to worry about theexpense of sterilizing other probesto Titan," according to Lewis.

Voyager has also discovered orconfirmed the existence of fivenew satellites, bringing Saturn'stotal to 15. Two of the moonstravel in the same orbit. Scientists-Are unsure why the two moonsdon't collide.

Today, Voyager is making amovie of Saturn's rotation frombehind. "The bright and darkfeatures in the rings have reversedthemselves as in a photographicnegative. The dark spokes arenow bright, as well as the thinbraided F-ring," said JPLspokesman Allen Wood. "Thespokes are definitely related toSaturn's magnetic field."

Bridge's group is studying theinteraction between Saturn'smagnetic field and the solar wind."It may be the flux of ions spew-ing from Titan that keeps the F-ring braided," said Bagenal.

"I think the F-ring is the mostastounding surprise Voyager hasrevealed so far," said Johnson.

Voyager 11 will arrive at Saturnnext year, and is presently on atrajectory that will later take it onto Uranus and Neptune. 'Thefinal decision of where to sendVoyager If will be madeDecember 24, but right now itlooks like it's going to be Uranusfor sure," said Wood. Voyager Iflost one of its radio receiversshortly after launch, and itsbackup has developed a problem.Despite the receiver problems,"both probes have functioned sowell there is no reason to believewe won't be visiting Neptune in1989," said Wood.

However, NASA has not yetreceived funding for the Uranusprogram.

proven to be one of the most in-triguing objects of Voyager'sstudy. Last night it was learnedthat Titan's core is smaller thanJupiter's satellite Ganymede. Asof yesterday morning, Titan wasconsidered the largest satellite inthe Solar System. It still is largest,

-ifantre thickness of itsopaque;dense, nitrogen atmosphere -isconsidered.

"Titan's surface may consist ofwater/ice with concentrated am-monia/water puddles," said MITPlanetary Science Professor JohnLewis before the arrival of lastnight's data from Saturn. "if thatproves to be the case, we definite-ly would have complex organicmolecules raining down on Titan.That would require temperaturesof above 173°K," said Lewis.

Last night's preliminary data ismaking that possibility less likely,according to Torrence Johnson, amember of the Voyager imagingteam at the Jet Propufiion Lab inPasadena (JPL). '"It looks like thesurface temperature may turn outto be below 90'K, at 87°K," hesaid.

"Then we would have therather dismal picture of Titancovered with an ocean of liquidnitrogen," said Lewis. "The pos-sibility of complex organicmolecules would be low.

"One thing we have alreadylearned from Voyager is thatthere is almost no chance ter-restrial li fe could survive on'Titan. Even if it were warmenough for ammonia puddles, theammonia concentration would bee100 times stronger than necessaryto kill even the most resistantEarth -organism."

That wouldn't preclude thedevelopment of other forms oflife, but "it would mean we

By Kenneth SnowAlthough there was a pos-

sibility that the MBTA wouldshut down this morning, M IT hadno plans for-such an event.

According to William Dickson,Director of Physical Plant, MIThad no plans in case the MBTAdid stop running and such a clos-ing would have been "a realproblem."'

The possibility of the MBTAclosing was the result of a $41 mil-lion dollar budget deficiency. Thepresent budget ran out of moneyat 2:00 am this morning. The ad-ditional funds were suppliedyesterday afternoon after anemergency session of the StateLegislature.

Walter Milne, Special Assistanti

mons students in the same facility with a la carte,"said Brammer. He estimated that during dinner 10percent of the people at Walker eat a Za carte ratherthan commons, and during lunch the percentage iseven higher.

Bramner added, "'Our goal is to find a means toserve'the students in their own unique space. Thenwe can begin to provide things like a salad bar and [asocial] program."

Adrian Houtsma, the housemaster of EastCampus, expressed concern with the speed at whichimprovements are being made. "The problem is thatas the situation is being studied and

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By Frank HirachThe Dining Advisory Board (DAB) has

authorized a staff group to begin a'-study of futurestudent dining on the east side of campus, according,to Gene Brammer, the director of Housing andFood Services.

The group's recommendations will be made dur-ing the spring term. Some of the options that are be-ing considered are a.new dining hall exclusively forEast- Campus and Sentior House students who eatcommons+> or renovating Walker Memorial so thatcommons meals can be- sewved separate fror la lacarte. "The problem is that we try to serve the comr

.The fate of the old Infirmary

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The Commencement Commit-tee announced that it has sent aproposal to President Paul Graythat would reinstitute the practiceof- having an outside speaker atcommencement.

The Commencement Commit.tee is also pursuing the problemof graduation facilities, such asrain commencement sites. A dis-covery of preservation problemswith MIT's old diplomas has ledthe committee - to considerdiploma material changes.

By Sarah Dingman

Will the Infirmary be convertedinto MIT's first sorority next fall?;This was one of the issues broughtup at Reportback,, a forun-heldThursday evehninig for uni-dergraduates on Institute com-mittees to report on their ac-complishments and answer ques-tions from the undergraduate stu-dent body.

The Infirmary issue wasbrought up by Suzanne vonRosenberg '83 of the new Ad-visory Committee for Women'sInterests. "Several nationalsororities approach Bob Holden[Associate Dean for Student Af-fairs] every year," she said. Thecommittee is now trying to deter-mine if there is sufficient interestamong MIT women to warrantany action, since women will havefirstpriority for the West CampusInfirmary building when it isvacated next year.

The committee is especiallyconcerned with the plight ofsingle-sex housing, since 40 out of100 interested freshmen womenwere turned away from McCor-mick last September, and thenumber of women students atMIT is increasing.

Robert Willis '82 of the Com-mittee on Educational Potl"cy(CEP) spoke on the proposedchanging of the 1981-82 academiccalendar to accomodate the lateLabor Day holiday and finalsweek next fall. The committee willsubmit a calendar in February forfaculty approval.

Also on the agenda of the CEPis a discussion of unit changes andstandardization -between depart-ments as well as in individualcourses. The committee seeks stu-dent input.

Along the same- lines, AlDrake, Professor, of ElectricalEngineering and ComputerScience, spoke for the Committeeon Curricula (COC). The COC isstudying students' perceptionsand fulfillment of Institute re-quirements. 'There is a differencebetween the theory and practiceof science and lab requirements,"Drake commented.

The COC is concerned over theaddition of an excessive numberof courses to MIT's catalog,which Drake said could make itthe 'death of all forests." He ad-ded, "Students tend to narrow in[on their majors] much morequickly than we expected." Thiscould cause many Institute re-quirements to be needless, hesaid. Speaking to students, Drake

emphasized, "Don't be reluctantto get in touch with committeemembers about petitions."

The need for Freshman Evalua-tions is being studied by the Com-"mittee onl Student Affairs (CSA).The committee is also interestedin the success of workingfreshmen into MIT residentialand academic life duringResidence/Orientation' Week.'How to slow things down" atMIT is a part of current CSA dis-cussion.

Rabbi Shevitz has approachedCSA over the plight of the KosherKitchen (in the basement ofWalker Memorial) if thatbuilding is turned into a graduatestudent center or if the number of

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NationBrush fires rout thousands - Brush fires, encouraged by dryconditions and 50mph winds, roared this weekend across more than30,000 acres of land in Southern California, near Los Angeles. Four ofthe five fires were reported out-of-control as of Monday morning.Structural damage in the burned areas is estimated at $25 million. One,fire approached the area of Pacific Palisades, President-elect RonaldReagan's home, before "all-out efforts" contained the fire.

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On November 4, I became anendangered species. I am a liberal- and I now see my future being

threatened by both the right andthe left. The threat liberals pre-sent to their owh v future well-being may prove far more seriousthan the short-erm danger posedby the Reagan landslide.

The election results are a clear

indication that the American peo-ple are more concerned with the

state of the economy than that ofthe environment, the poor, orother traditional liberal policy is-sues. Liberals who glibly predictthat their rich benefactors willreturn to the fold. from their

premature journey into fundingthe arts anid humanities are fool-ing themselves. Even i f thebacklash against the Moral Ma-jority and the National Conser-vative Political Action Committeesucceeds in killing those groupsforever, the conservative trendwill remain.

Some conservatives see theelection strengthening the futureof liberalism. The best andbrightest of our generation, so thereasoning goes, will respond tothe Republican landslide byflocking to Washington to savethe world. Even William Satirerecommended last week thatyoung people planning a career inpolitics become liberals. This willprobably be the only time in mylife I fervently hope that peopletake William Safire's advice.

Even if these eager youngliberals do take up the 6hallengeand head for Washington, it isdoubtful that they will-find anytraditional liberals left to join.Already, Senators Gary Hart,Paul Tsongas and other membersof the Upper House's shrinkingliberal delegation are talking of a

"new liberalism." The shape thisnew philosophy will take, andhow it will be related to what

must now;· be called the "oldliberalism," are notyet clear.

As far as I caln tell, this newliberalism will be based in greatpart on the curse of many current-Democratic burea ucrats:

cost/benefit analysis. Thestrategy seems to be that the

Republican budget-cuttinghordes can be kept from the socialprograms by using cost/benefit~to'justify these programs' existence.

Most liberals would be happyto be able to numerically provethat their pet programs work; fewbelieve it can be done. It is no sm-

all task to quantify the economicbenefits of cleaner air or. quan-titatively estimate the social value

of breaking the poverty cycle.Cost/benefit analysis-is arationalization which liberals willprobably -not be able to hidebehind for very long. The ques-tion remains, what will they dowhen that strategy fails?

Chances are they will be forcedto turn to the right. Conservative

groups are already threateningliberals, calling for them to toethe line or else. The consequencesof b'or else" are, of course, il-lustrated by the election defeats of

Frank Church,' GeorgeMcGovern, Birch Bayh, et al. Thepolitical instinct to save one's skin

-will give the new liberals much tothink- about.

Compromise almost inevitablyleads to further erosion. Political

programs may be amenable tocompromise; political· values are'not. If there is a lesson for liberalsto learn from this conservativevictory, it is tenacity. Trulybelieving in the value and neces-

sity of social equity requires sup-

porting that philosophy throughgood times and bad. Liberals in-ching to the right to salvage someof their programs may end updropping over the cliff and losingeverything.

This is not to say there are no

conservative programs liberals-can support. Government waste isnot justifiable in any politicalphilosophy. Some programs, such

as job training efforts, may havequantifiable outcomes. But ingeneral, liberals may have to getused to the idea of being on thelosing. side of Congressionalvotes. This", however, is a far bet-

-ter fate than'being on the winningside of a vote- but the losing sideof a conscience.

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Voyager Oneoand

Last Wednesday, scores of MIT students huddled around MITVmonitors to watch Voyager 1 encounter Saturn. Saturn made the frontpage of every major newspaper and was featured nightly on the eveningnews for the better part of a week.

Public interest in science was rekindled by the flyby of the one-tonautomated space laboratory. The populace probably regarded the dis-

covery of extra Saturnian moons, spokes in the planet's rings, and anelaborate substructure within the rings with a certain detached puzzle-

ment. Although the science may have been esoteric, many people foundin the Voyager publicity an opportunity to give some thought to the

mysteries left in nature - problems scientists can attempt to solvewithout fearing disruption of the environment or ethical dilemmas.

We can be thankful for opportunities like Voyager to put aside

thoughts of politics and inflation and focus instead on man's place in

the universe and on the place of science as a fantastic intellectualendeavor.

However, behind the surface wave of enthusiasm, there must a subtle

undercurrent of concern. Science spectaculars like Voyager arewonderful ways to get people thinking about science. They may also be

discriminatory against less spectacular but equally or more valuableresearch.

There is more to consider when one is evaluating the merit of a scien-tific proposal than its public relations value. In an age when politics,

education and culture are more and more frequently tailored to and

packaged for the mass media, we must fear for the time when ourscience is also so oriented. If national scientific priorities come to be

dictated solely by the marketability of dazzling pictures or by sheer in-

dustrial appeal, the national scientific community will not remain vital

for long.Science spectaculars and sexy pictures are important to capture and

maintain the interest of the general public. But they must be the des-serts, and not the staples, of science.

When Voyager attracts large awestruck crowds at a setting like MIT,where the audience is supposedly accustomed to the mysteries of

natural phenomena, we can hardly expect a less informed populace tomaintain its perspective. We can only hope that researchers, while theyissue theirjustified oohs and aahs at the splendor of Saturn, continue to

support and perform science that is valuable and not just pretty.

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Betrayil, by Harold-Pinter, at the CharlesPlayhouse through December 5.

Harold Pinter's latest work, Betrayal,uses an interesting technique to analyzed anadulterous relationship: the entire play una-folds in reverse. The first scene takes placein 1977, with the two ex-lovers gettingtogether at a pub to have a drink andreminisce. The last scene depicts the firstmeeting of the pair, and happens in 1968.

This, device, although not unique, is anovel method to diagram the mechanics ofadultery. Unfortunately, the-device is theonly thing novel about the play; Pinter hasadded no new information to thephenomenon of betrayal. There are no newinsights to be gained from watching thisplay. Some would argue that the reversed-time gimmick is a sufficient impetus tohave produced it. Nonsense - if the best aplaywright can do is play stylistic games, heshould quit while he's ahead. "Theme" isthe operative word for a play, not"technical perfection." Pinter in particularshould know better,

There are ,only three characters inBetrayal. Emma (Jenny Agutter), Robert(Paul Benedict), her husband and Jerry

(Richard Jordan), her lover. In addition tothe affair between · Jerry and Emma, thethree are tied together through various.business dealings. Jerry is an agent, andRobert a publisher. To further embroilmatters, Jerry and Robert are best friends.Why all these details were ·added is amystery, since they just serve to confuse the,direction of the material.

Paul Benedict as Robert delivers aprecise portrayal of a precise individual.Robert leads an exact life with every wordand gesture calculated. Benedict achievesthis robot-like quality with ease. It is to bewondered whether Benedict would havebeen able to handle the role if it called forany sign of emotion. Robert doesn't seemto care about his wife's affair half the time,and explodes into cartoon fury the otherhalf.- It makes understanding of his truefeelings very difficult.

Jenny Agutter does a creditable job asEmma. She is capable of expressing hap-piness, anger, desire, or reticence as neces-sary. Like Benedict, however, her true feel-ings are hidden most, of the time. Part ofthis is due to the role, -but some of it seemsto be unfamiliarity with the character on

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Jenny Agutter and Richard Jordan co-star in. Harold Pinter's Betrayal.

the part of Agutter.Richard Jordan does the best job as Jer-

ry. He sounds younger and more confidenteach time the clock turns back. In addition,Jerry is the only character to show strongemotion, and Jordan conveys the lover'sfeelings to the audience with accuracy and

enthusiasm.The sets for Betrayal are stark and

empty. A chair and table, or a bed servesfor most scenes. This concentrates theaudience's attention on the actors. It's toobad that they say nothing of great import.

Michael Tavigs

1X E cluding works by Bergsma, Rosen andHoist at 8:30pm on Nov. 21 in KresgeAuditorium. Tickets for the concert will beavailable all week in Lobby 10 and at thedoor.

--- "XTHEXIEREPeople's Theatre, 1253 Cambridge St.,

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The award-winning play The.ElephantMan will begin a 6-week enegaement at the

The MI~T Dramash~op will present a seriesof one-act plays: After Magritte, The Policeand Line on Nov. 20, 21 & 22 at 8pm inKresge Little Theatre. Admission is free.

The MIT Community Players' produc-tion of the children's show, Winnie thePooh, will play Dec._S at 7:30pm, Dec. 6 at2& 7:30prm and Dec. 7 at Ipm in KresgeLittle Theatre. Tickets are $3, $2.50 withMIT ID, $1.50 for children. For informa-tion and reservations, call 253-4720.

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"Another problem is that thereis no late commons dinneravailable here on the east side ofcampus. Many students who areinvolved in various sports aregreatly inconvenienced by this,"criticized Houtsma. Late dinnersare presently available only atBaker dining hall.

"With all these people on com-mons a few years down the road,we need an acceptable diningprogram," commented Houtsma,"but they must not let the searchfor a permanent solution obscurethe need for improvements right,now.ss

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"There is much concern amongthe students, lots of talk andgeneral unhappiness with thesystem," added Houtsma. Inthree-and-a-half years there willbe over 600 students eating man-datory commons in Walker, hesaid, and there is much questionwhether a major improvement,such as a new dining facility, canbe constructed quickly enough toserve these future students.

"Students here,'' saidHoutsma, "deserve a commonsdining room operated the same asin Baker." Currently there is nosalad bar or provision for going

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE)won the second annual in-tramural Octathon tournamentheld this past week, winning alleight events en route to gatheringi554 out of a possible 1600points.

Baker House, which also won

all eight sections of the week-longtourney (soccer, football, hockey,ultimate frisbee, water polo,basketball, softball, and vol-leyball), took second place with1422 points. Baker won the in-augural Octathon in 1979, using a3-2 softball win over SAE to takelast year's title. Burton House

jumped from tenth to third, with1354 points and a 7-1 mark, thelone loss coming to the Delts inwater polo, 4-2. None of the topthree teams faced each other inthe competition, as pairings wererandomly drawn.

Steve Aschkenase '81, thisyear's Octathon manager, notedthat the tournament went well in1980, crediting the managers'inthe various sports for aid in sup-plying officials and helping tocoordinate field space.Aschkenase acknowledged thatthe scoring for hockey may needto be revamped, as a largenumber of teams received themaximum 100 bonus points basedon scoring five or more goals.

The order of finish is as fol-'lows:

1. Sigma Alpha Epsilon 15542. Baker - 14223. Burton 13544. Lambda Chi Alpha 12565. Theta Chi 10226. Sigma Phi Epsilon 10177. Random' 10138. Kappa Sigma 9379. Pi Lambda Phi - 90910. Delts 886

Fitchburg State, and Keene State.Intramural Soccer - Club Latinowon the first Independent A-League soccer title Saturday bydefeating the-Ellines (Greek stu-dent association) in a 4-2 over-time contest at SteinbrennerStadium. The Ellines took a 1-0lead late in the first half, but ClubLatino fought back to control thegame in the second 45 minutes ofplay, eventually getting theequalizer with just ten minutesleft in regulation. Neither teamcould score during the overtimeperiod, and the result boileddown to giving each squad fourpenalty kicks, most successes win-ning. Club Latino connected onthree of four, while, the Ellinescould only push, across one oftheir chances to make the finalscore 4-2.

By Eric R. FlemingThe women's answer to Oc-

tathon was held during the weekof November 5-1l, and if theweek's proceedings are any in-dication, Pentathlon will becomea permanent fixture on the MITintramural sports scene.

The inaugural tourney featuredfive events: volleyball, soccer,basketball, water polo, and soft-ball, with six teams competing.Scoring was done in the same wayas Octathon, with a team receiv-ing 100 points for a win, plus"bonus" points up to a maximumof 100. Many of the contests wereextremely close, with two of thethree soccer games ending in tiesafter five-minute overtimes, andseveral overtime thrillers inbasketball and water polo. Afterfour events, with only softballremaining, three teams - SeniorHouse, Baker Grapes (composedof freshmen and sophomores),and Number Six-were in therunning for first place. BothBaker and Senior House wontheir games and earned 100 bonuspoints, while Number Six lost itscontest, as the Grapes took firstwith 657 out of a possible J100points, putting Senior House inthe runnerup spot with 635.Burton used a 13-7 win in softballto edge out Number Six for thirdplace (506 points).

Manager Emmy Behlau '82was pleased with the tourney; heronly regret was that McCormick,the largest female living group oncampus, did not field a team.Behlau noted that the idea for afemale counterpart to Octathoncame when a woman from BakerHouse attempted to join thedorm's Octathon team. Shecredited the various teams' cap-tains for doing a fine job inorganizing and getting the teamsout to play, its no iorfeits wereregistered during the five-day af-lau i r.

Support from the men on

campus was excellent. The gameswere well attended, and the fanscheered their favorites on.

Behlau hopes that in the futuremore teams will participate, in-cluding indpendent groups suchas laboratories, etc. She also ex-pressed the hope that participa-tion in Pentathlon will encouragewomen here to become more in-volved in sports at the club andvarsity levels.

The final standings were:l. Baker Grapes 6572. Senior House Rugby 6353. Burton 5064. Number Six 4685. Baker Bricks 3726. WILG 319

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